PRO 30:26 Parallel Verse View

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ULT Rock badgers are a people not mighty,
⇔ but they set their house in the cliff.

UST Although hyraxes are weak animals,
⇔ they make their homes among the rocks on cliffs.

BSB • the rock badgers [fn] are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;

OEB A feeble folk, too, are the conies,
⇔ yet they make their house in the rocks.

WEBBE The hyraxes are but a feeble folk,
⇔ yet make they their houses in the rocks.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET rock badgers are creatures with little power,
⇔ but they make their homes in the crags;

LSV hyraxes [are] a people not strong,
And they place their house in a rock,

FBV Hyraxes[fn]—they don't have much power, but they make their homes in the rock.

30:26 Also known as rock badgers or coneys.

T4T Rock badgers also are not strong,
⇔ but they make their homes among the rocks where they will be safe.

LEB • are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock;

BBE The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;

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JPS The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the crags;

ASV The conies are but a feeble folk,
⇔ Yet make they their houses in the rocks;

DRA The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:

YLT Conies [are] a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,

Drby the rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, yet they make their house in the cliff;

RV The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

Wbstr The conies are but a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;

KJB-1769 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

KJB-1611 The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make they their houses in the rocks

Bshps The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make their boroughes among the rockes:
(The conies are but a feeble folke, yet make their boroughes among the rocks:)

Gnva The conies a people not mightie, yet make their houses in the rocke:
(The conies a people not mighty, yet make their houses in the rock: )

Cvdl The conyes are but a feble folke, yet make they their couches amonge the rockes.
(The conyes are but a feble folke, yet make they their couches among the rocks.)

Wyc a hare, a puple vnmyyti, that settith his bed in a stoon;
(a hare, a people unmyyti, that settith his bed in a stone;)

Luth Kaninchen, ein schwach Volk, dennoch legt es sein Haus in den Felsen;
(Kaninchen, a schwach people, dennoch legt it his house in the Felsen;)

ClVg lepusculus, plebs invalida, qui collocat in petra cubile suum;[fn]
(lepusculus, plebs invalida, who collocat in petra cubile suum; )

30.26 Lepusculus, alii chœrogryllus, etc., usque ad sed hic quidam pro lepusculo hericium habent. HIERON. Habent enim Hebræa verbum saphan, quod murem et chœrogyllum et leporem et hericium interpretantur. Lepusculus, etc. Hæc est plebs Ecclesiæ, quæ invalida, quia injurias suas ulcisci non quærit, et quia non suis viribus, sed in Dei auxilio sperare salutem didicit, quod est cubile habere in petra, unde dicit cum Psalmista: Esto mihi in lapidem fortissimum, in domum munitam, ut salves me, quia petra mea et munitio mea es tu.

30.26 Lepusculus, alii chœrogryllus, etc., until to but this quidam for lepusculo hericium habent. HIERON. Habent because Hebræa the_word saphan, that murem and chœrogyllum and leporem and hericium interpretantur. Lepusculus, etc. This it_is plebs Ecclesiæ, which invalida, because inyurias their_own ulcisci not/no quærit, and because not/no to_his_own viribus, but in of_God auxilio sperare salutem didicit, that it_is cubile habere in petra, whence dicit when/with Psalmista: Esto to_me in lapidem fortissimum, in home munitam, as salves me, because petra mea and munitio mea you_are tu.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: translate-unknown

שְׁ֭פַנִּים

badgers

Rock badgers are small animals also called hyraxes that live in the cracks between rocks in the wilderness. If your readers would not be familiar with this type of animal, you could use the name of something similar in your area or you could use a more general term. Alternate translation: “Small mammals that living among rocks”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

עַ֣ם

people

See how you translated the same use of people in the previous verse.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / genericnoun

בַ⁠סֶּ֣לַע בֵּיתָֽ⁠ם

in/on/at/with,rocks homes,their

Although house and the cliff are singular, they refer to these things in general. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use more natural expressions. Alternate translation: “their houses in the cliffs”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / personification

בֵּיתָֽ⁠ם

homes,their

Here, Agur refers to the places where Rock badgers live as if those places were houses like humans live in. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “their dwelling places” or “their holes”

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